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Democracy Quotes by John Dewey
- What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By…
- No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but…
- Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
- Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and…
- The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who…
- Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the…
- Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
- Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
- Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally…
- The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and…
- A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
- We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos
More Democracy Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood